you have any guidance around taking notes from books and lectures yeah yeah no problem like don't be taking notes during the lecture exactly because then you're not listening to the lecture it's like listen to the lecture and then take notes afterwards now that doesn't work for every discipline but but it certainly works for disciplines like students in my lectures I always tell them don't take notes during the lecture listen to the damn lecture you can take notes afterwards because what that does is force you to practice remembering and then with regards to books it's like
read don't highlight don't underline like that I think that that's just rubbish I think it's pseudo work read a couple of paragraphs or maybe an essay something like that depending on the density of the book close the book think about it write down what you're thinking write down what you remember but but but in the context of what you're thinking about because that instantiates it into your memory and give and puts at hand like people ask me for example how it is that I can remember all the things that I talk about extemporaneously when I'm
lecturing and the reason for that is because I've thought them through you know I read them and I think oh okay well that's an interesting idea how does it relate to all these other ideas that I know like what is its significance for this idea and what's its significance for this idea and do I believe it and how might I criticize it so it's kind of like I'm I'm attaching little memory hooks to it in in five different ways and then I've got it it's it's part of me and that seems to be part of
recall rather than recognition and recall is the spontaneous Act of remembering something complex and when you recall something you're actually practicing remembering it and that's what you need to do if you want that to be part of you so I would say separate out the function of reading and note taking so read think write but don't like read a sentence and then write down that sentence that's not helpful you could read the sentence close the book and then reformulate the sentence so that now it's your sentence man then you'll remember it then you'll understand it
that works really well [Music]
